EDUCATION

F.H. CLERGUE FRENCH IMMERSION SCHOOL

This was the first new elementary school built in Sault Ste. Marie, in thirty years. As such, considerable community and Board involvement has taken place to ensure this is the best facility that can be built for the money available. The project will include the usual classroom types, plus dedicated science, music and arts classrooms, and double gymnasia, all of which are highly unusual for an elementary school.

PROTOTYPICAL MIDDLE SCHOOL

Mr. Ellis provided volunteer services to the island country of St. Lucia for the design concept for a prototype middle school.

Classrooms are ‘L’ shaped to allow flexibility of programme delivery within. The Library is elongated which enables a multitude of tasks to take place simultaneously without the interference of a traditional square design. There are nooks and crannies provided throughout the plan, for informal learning, or for display of student‘s work.

VITERBO UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ETHICS, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY

"Viterbo will be a premier institution among small independ- ent universities in the upper Midwest” (from Vision 2005 “A Renaissance for Living and Learning in the 21st Century” )

Viterbo is a Catholic University located in Wisconsin, dedicated to ethics based education. Mr. Ellis provided the overall concept design and laboratory planning for this new school. Aesthetically, it integrates into the existing traditional campus architecture, yet inwardly, is a modern environment.

BAY DE NOC COLLEGE

This Community College required a building solution to their growing science program, especially in the area of environmental sciences. The object was to provide multi-purpose laboratories and research space that can be shared to provide either separate, complimentary classes, or distance learning abilities.

ALGOMA UNIVERSITY

We were hired a few years ago to prepare a masterplan as a roadmap for the University’s growth, but also to provide  several renovations and additions, to establish the visual architectural language used for future work at the university.  

STEAM CENTRE

STEAM education centres are growing in importance as efforts are underway to integrate training and education, across the science and art disciplines. Sault Ste. Marie’s proposed centre is to be located within the building that currently houses the Candian Bushplane Heritage Centre, Maker’s North and the local office of Science North.

BOREAL FRENCH IMMERSION SCHOOL

We transformed the a 60 year old institutional building into a new JK to 8, French Immersion Elementary School. The project includes the complete renewal of the site, complete exterior façade and all interiors to yield an essentially ‘new’ school. The net result is a building that is unrecognizable from its former self. Everything must be changed to suit its new use. The site now has to accommodate a minimum of 25 buses, and provide a complete separation of cars and buses on the site.

LAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITY CRAWFORD HALL OF SCIENCE AND RESEARCH

The campus consists of older and dignified historic structures. So this design builds on its intrinsic attributes in a modern interpretation of the traditional architecture, taking design cues from the old Fort Brady campus buildings. This brings a modern contemporary look, yet steeped with historic reference.

ALGOMA UNIVERSITY ESSAR BIOSCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY CONVERGENCE CENTRE

Algoma University’s new Science Building was designed to LEED Gold standards and houses academic teaching and research activities in the natural and digital sciences. It also supports co-location of a number of other businesses organizations dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology research in the development and private sector commercialization of technology in the Algoma region.

NORCAT UNDERGROUND TEACHING AND TRAINING CENTRE

NORCAT Innovation is the only training and innovation centre in the world with an operating mine that provides workplace training, facilitates  start-up ventures, and with the linked resources of multinational companies with the infrastructure, expertise and equipment required to develop, test and demonstrate their technologies in an actual underground operating mine 

LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN ENGINEERING + SCIENCES

david ELLIS architect worked with i4architecture, as the laboratory consultant for a new state-of-the-art science facility to be built to LEED Gold Certification on the Lakehead University campus.

ALGOMA UNIVERSITY: THE NEST

A special place to meet, interact and be part of the culture of the University, the Nest is situated immediately adjacent to the Student Union Office at one of the university’s main entrances.

ADSB JK to 12 SCHOOL

The new school amalgamates all students for the entire community, from Junior Kindergarten to Grade 12, in one new facility. The project includes all classroom types from kindergarten rooms through science, music and arts classrooms. As the student population is small, most classrooms are designed to be able to be easily sub-divided into two smaller spaces on demand, to suit classes as small as 6 to a dozen students, up to full size.

SAULT COLLEGE RENOVATIONS

Our firm’s involvement began with the original design of E-Wing in the 1970’s, through renovations by Mr. Ellis in the early 1990’s and the early 2000’s, the College’s renovations were designed to reflect an interactive, technology driven academic environment. For example, with the renovation of E-Wing, the original concept for the main block of this building was a component based system, modular in nature and therefore easy to manipulate and evolve.

NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE NATURAL SCIENCES & IT CENTRE

The Integrated Learning Centre is designed to reflect the intimate relationship between students, technology and the natural environment. The building will form part of a courtyard blending and physically linking with other campus buildings, opening onto the exterior landscape.

MUKQUA WAAKAA'IGAN DESIGN CONCEPT

This concept was prepared during the course of our preparation of the Master Plan for Algoma University. It is only conceptual in nature, but designed as a living reminder of the school’s past, as a residential school.

KORAH COLLEGIATE (IB) HIGH SCHOOL

Built in the 1960’s, this high school needed to be substantially renovated, starting with it’s exterior and main entrance. This is the first phase of an update to the entire school.

ALGOMA UNIVERSITY COMPUTER SCIENCES DEPARTMENT

This department was the first to be built as part of the Master Plan we executed for the University. The concept is that although we have some traditional classroom spaces, much of the learning will be collaborative in nature, so that those corridor like transitional spaces become the focus of the department. 

SAULT COLLEGE NET-ZERO BUILDING

The original building was designed and ready to move into production drawings, but an important change was made.  We are extremely excited as this building was re-imagined and designed as the first Net-Zero building on Northern Ontario.